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IQ-EQ, an Astorg portfolio company, has acquired Greyline Partners (Greyline), a US provider of governance and regulatory compliance solutions for PE, VC, hedge funds and investors.
Greyline is a fast-growing business with a strong commercial and cultural fit for IQ-EQ’s expanding operations in the US. Today, IQ-EQ U.S. employs 500-plus people with plans to significantly grow this number in 2022 thanks to its strong business performance in the US market. The combination of IQ-EQ and Greyline firmly positions IQ-EQ as the leading provider of outsourced business services to the alternative asset industry. This latest acquisition follows the successful acquisitions of
RWS Entertainment Group (RWS) has acquired international attraction design firm JRA.
This acquisition expands RWS’ capabilities and creates the world’s exclusive, full-service provider of visitor attractions and experiences.
For decades, both leaders have pioneered the attractions industry’s approach to entertaining and educating guests. Today, with headquarters in New York City, London, and now Cincinnati, this powerful combined RWS team of dreamers, designers, creators, and operators is set to provide endless experiences for theme parks, attractions, cruise ships, zoos, aquariums, museums, theatre venues, casinos, hotels and resorts, botanical gardens, visitor centres, port of call destinations, retail and real estate, municipalities,
The Riverside Company has invested in Executive Home Care Franchising (Executive Care), a leading provider of non-medical, in-home services for senior citizens and physically handicapped or injured individuals in need of daily living support.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in lifestyle products company Paladone to Canadian private equity firm IVEST Consumer Partners.
Paladone specialises in the design, development and wholesale supply of own-brand and licensed products for brands including PlayStation, Disney and Harry Potter. It launches hundreds of new products a year across categories such as homeware, drinkware, puzzles and games, and supplies international retail giants such as Kohl’s, Target and Walgreens.
LDC backed the Brighton-headquartered business in 2018 to support the existing management team’s ambitious international and organic growth strategy.
The three-year partnership has helped Paladone to
LBO France has taken a majority stake in French company Alliance Marine, alongside the management team led by Jean-Paul Roche, to increase the company’s position on its markets.
Alliance Marine is the expert in third-party and proprietary equipment and spare parts, for renovation and maintenance in the boating and marine industry sectors. With 650 employees and a portfolio of more than 500 brands, Alliance Marine is not only the undisputed industry leader in France but also in Europe, where it has a nearly 10 per cent market share with revenues in excess of EUR210 million.
Following several external growth transactions,
Revalize, a firm in sector-specific revenue operations software for manufacturers, their distributors, and their specifiers, has secured a significant minority investment into the business for Hg.
As part of the transaction, Revalize is planning to acquire three European software companies. The addition of PROCAD Group in Germany, SpecPage in Switzerland and TENADO, also in Germany, will extend the Revalize solution portfolio and its European operations.
Revalize is backed by TA Associates (TA), a global growth private equity firm, and ST6, a group of highly experienced software operating executives who specialize in accelerating transformational change. ST6 is led by Mark Friedman, a
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised US-based corporate Ensign-Bickford Industries (EBI) on its acquisition of Cawood Scientific – a UK independent scientific group – from Waterland Private Equity.
Cawood Scientific provides laboratory analysis to the agriculture, food, and environmental sectors, as well as contract research to support the development of agrochemicals, biocides and other chemicals, with laboratories based across the UK, Europe and the United States.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, EBI is a 185-year-old privately held corporation with diversified businesses in aerospace and defence, molecular diagnostics, and pet food palatability sectors.
Following the acquisition, Cawood will become a member
Clue, a SaaS platform for managing investigations, has secured a growth investment of GBP5 million from Frog Capital, an investor in European scale-up software.
Demand for Clue has more than doubled over the last two years, driven by co-owners Clare Elford, CEO, and Thomas Drohan, CCO. From its roots in policing, the platform is now used across government, private and non-profit sectors to investigate cyber-crime, fraud, child protection, corruption, environmental crime, cheating in sports and much more.
Clare and Thomas are joined on the board of directors by Nick Harber, CFO; Mike Reid, Senior Partner at Frog Capital; and Adam
Global Investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is to acquire AutoForm AG (AutoForm), a specialist in engineering software for sheet metal forming simulation, primarily used in the automotive industry, from global private equity firm Astorg.
Details of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, are not being disclosed.
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, AutoForm provides software solutions for sheet metal forming simulation and Body in White (BiW) assembly simulation, mainly for the automotive industry. With its innovations for rapid and reliable validation of the BiW design, engineering, manufacturing, and assembly processes, AutoForm is setting the standards
BioAgilytix, a global contract research organisation (CRO), is to be further capitalised by Cinven, which will acquire a majority stake in the business, while current majority investor Cobepa, a Brussels-based private investment firm, will remain a significant minority investor in the Company.
Cobepa and GHO Capital, a specialist investor in global healthcare, acquired BioAgilytix in November of 2018. The company focuses on large molecule bioanalytical testing. The investment by Cinven will provide BioAgilytix with increased funding and resources to meet the growing demand for its high-quality bioanalytical services, driven by its strong scientific reputation and leading expertise in supporting the
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